Honestly?
Folks, we need to reasonable. It's time to face facts. Reagan first won 36 years ago. In the interim, we've had Republicans, but we haven't had conservatives. Not even anyone as conservative as Trump.
For us to advance the conservative agenda... ANY kind of conservative agenda... we're going to have to win the White House. Do I think Trump is the second coming of Reagan? No. But I also don't think he's the second coming of GWH Bush. Or Obama.
Cross-over appeal used to not be a dirty words. Reagan won with it. No Republican is ever going to win again without it.
Michigan should tell us a lot about whether Trump can truly broaden the Republican coalition as he has claimed.
Does he draw blue-collar D's? Does Hillary get fewer of them?
If he's right, we ain't seen nothing yet in terms of political warfare. It is going to get much, much uglier than it is right now.
Cross-over appeal used to not be a dirty words. Reagan won with it. No Republican is ever going to win again without it. Michigan should tell us a lot about whether Trump can truly broaden the Republican coalition as he has claimed.
Well said.
The fact that a LOT of working class whites and union members have been owned by the Dems for decades speaks volumes about the weakness and delusion of the Republican party.